now only they gave me some time for further testing on this....thanks a lot for your effort lowell, I managed to get perfect export now, cheers!

think you have to go through all fields...

like jo said: single field in a table can have different collation from the table. There is no way

Of course you can do...

anybody knows how do to handle extended ASCII (ë, é ...) with this method to create XML?

thx in advance,

wim